| Saxophones, in comparison to many other instruments, | | | | large extent, the component of improvisation in order |
| do not have a very long history. The first one was | | | | to interpret the melody or harmony in a fresh way. |
| designed around 1840 by a Belgian named Adolphe | | | | Playing jazz involves elements of spontaneity, spirit, |
| Sax in an attempt to improve the sound of the clarinet. | | | | creativity, and rhythmic drive. As stated by Gary |
| Adolphe planned the saxophones as a family of | | | | Giddins, "It's the ultimate in rugged individualism. It's going |
| instruments ranging in size from the sopranino, soprano, | | | | out there on that stage and saying: It doesn't matter |
| alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, and | | | | how anybody else did it. This is the way I'm going to |
| sub-contrabass. Saxophones were first introduced into | | | | do it." Jazz allows the expression of a full range of |
| a musical score in 1844 by Jean-George Kastner. | | | | emotions with whichever instrument the musician is |
| Saxophones were initially used in symphonies, military | | | | using. |
| bands, and chamber music, then in big bands, and in the | | | | Clearly, one of the most expressive instruments in this |
| 1920's saxophones were incorporated into jazz music. | | | | type of music are saxophones with their ability to |
| Jazz music began it's infiltration into American music in | | | | squeal, laugh, shriek, and whisper. Saxophones are able |
| March 1917. The principal instruments used included the | | | | to release the inner voice, the feelings, the inner |
| trumpet, cornet, slide trombone, valve trombone, | | | | personality of the musician playing them. Not only is |
| French horn, baritone, clarinet, family of saxophones, | | | | jazz music an outlet for those listening to it, but also for |
| percussion, string bass, and piano. When members of | | | | the musicians playing the music with their saxophones. |
| the Original Dixieland Jazz Band were recording their | | | | Certainly what wasn't able to be said in words was |
| music in a New York studio, they were instructed to | | | | often verbalized musically whether through a soulful |
| play faster in order to fit the whole song on a record. | | | | lament or a happy energetic, playful sound, especially |
| This exciting, lively, assertive, rowdy, and bold music is | | | | with the tenor, alto, or soprano saxophones. |
| what caught the attention of everyone's listening ears. | | | | This means of expression is portrayed in the music of |
| It was a time when America was hard at work and | | | | not only the early innovators of swing, but also in |
| needed an outlet, a way to play. They grasped this | | | | bebop, hard bop, jazz, free jazz, and electric jazz/rock |
| new style with full force and made jazz a favorite | | | | funk. Some of the best and most renowned music |
| pastime. | | | | came from those musicians with the most difficult inner |
| Although this seemed like new music, it was not totally | | | | personal conflicts. It seems though that those with the |
| new in the truest sense of the word. It involves taking | | | | most troubled lives had the most inner drive to make |
| apart an already established song and then putting it | | | | their music as brilliant as possible. |
| back together in a novel way. Jazz also involves, to a | | | | |